MAKKAH — The Grand Mosque in Makkah, Islam’s holiest shrine, has been witnessing the convergence of over one million Umrah pilgrims and worshipers during the last 10 days of the holy month of Ramadan.

The Saudi Press Agency’s photographers captured the incredible images of the faithful’s gathering and movement as well as the integrated services being offered to them by the Saudi authorities from a high altitude.

The cameramen took the photographs of the faithful, who are spending the blessed night of the holy month in the vicinity of the Holy Kaaba, engaged in special prayers and supplications, seeking God’s mercy and forgiveness in an air of spirituality and serene atmosphere.

The security aviation wing of the Presidency of State Security has facilitated the SPA team to fly on board its helicopter that hovered around the holy city so that they could capture the amazing shots of the vast ocean of the faithful circumambulating the Holy Kaaba and moving in between the courtyards, corridors and floors of the Grand Mosque, of which the first floor and the roof of the Third Saudi Expansion have been opened for the first time for worshipers during the last 10 days of the holy month this year.

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